This document discusses the benefits of a paperless environment and recommendations for becoming paperless. It notes that a paperless environment greatly reduces or eliminates paper use by converting documents to digital form. This is beneficial as it reduces strain on resources, since paper production uses many resources and causes environmental issues like deforestation, air and land pollution. The document recommends organizing paperless files digitally, automatically backing up data, reducing and discouraging unnecessary paper use, and using technology and thinner paper more efficiently to transition to a more environmentally friendly paperless process.

1. Paperless
Environment
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Paperless environment and its requirement
Effects of paper usage
Contents / Agenda
Benefits of implementing paper free environment
Recommendations / Measures to become paper free

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Paperless environment
and its requirement

4. Paperless environment
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• A paperless environment is a
environment in which the use
of paper is eliminated or
greatly reduced
• Done by converting
documents and other
papers into digital form

5. Why we need paper free environment
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• Strain on resources
• According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, each year the world
produces more than 300
million tons of paper

6. Myth of Paperless environment
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The Myth of the Paperless Office
The use of e-mail in an organization causes
an average 40 percent increase in paper
consumption.
The Myth of the Paperless Office
By Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/myth-paperless-office

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Effects of Paper
Usage

8. Cumbersome PaperMaking Process

9. Impact on Environment
• The production and use of paper has a number of
adverse effects on the environment (Paper pollution)
 Deforestation
 Air pollution
 Land fills
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10. Deforestation
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• Worldwide consumption of
paper has risen by 400% in the
past 40 years, with 35% of
harvested trees being used for
paper manufacture.
Green Pakistan Programme - Govt has approved the launch of ‘Green Pakistan
Programme’ to improve forestry and wildlife sectors. This programme targets to add
100 million plants over the next five years all over the country.
Pakistan is one of the lowest forest cover
countries with only 5 percent of land
area under forest and tree cover.

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Land fills
• Preconsumer waste
Pre-consumer waste consists of
wastes from the manufacturing and
papermaking process as well as
finished paper from obsolete
inventories.
• Postconsumer waste
Post-consumer waste consists of
paper, paperboard and fibrous waste
from retail stores, offices and homes.

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Land fills
• According to the Environmental
Protection Agency [EPA], 27
percent of municipal solid waste
(MSW) is comprised of paper
waste.
• Paper waste like other wastes
faces the additional hazard of
toxic inks, dyes and polymers
that could be potentially
carcinogenic

13. Air pollution
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• Nitrogen oxides (NOx) sulfur
oxides (SOx) and carbon
dioxide (CO2) are all emitted
during pulp and paper
manufacturing
• NOx and SOx are major
contributors of acid rain and
CO2 is a greenhouse gas
responsible for climate change
• The paper industry is the fourth largest
contributor to greenhouse gas emissions

14. Mitigation of
Environmental
effects of Paper
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15. Paper Recycling
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Paper recycling pertains to the
processes of reprocessing
waste paper for reuse.

16. Paper Recycling Facts
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The construction costs
of a paper mill designed
to use recycled paper is
50 to 80% less than the
cost of a mill using new
pulp.
If we recycled most of our paper
almost 30% of our landfill space
would be free. Paper is the
biggest culprit of wasted
recyclable resources.

17. • Document Organization
• Paperless Files Are Easily Saved and Retrieved
• Automatic Backups
• Data Security
• Environmental Friendliness
• Financial Benefits
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Benefits of implementing paper free environment

18. Recommendations
to become paper free
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19. • Document Organization
• Back ups
• Reduce, Discourage Paper Usage
• Re-architect Key Business Processes
• Use Email for communication
• Think before you print
• Use paper more efficiently
• Use thinner paper
• Reuse paper
• Use less paper by effectively using computers and other technology
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How to become Paper less

20. Thank You!
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